Kalpana One Space
Settlement

Free space settlements are man-made, hollow planetoids in orbit.
The colonists live permanently on the interior.

Kalpana One is intended to improve on the free space settlement
designs of the mid-1970s: the Bernal Sphere, Stanford Torus, and
O'Neill cylinders, as well as on Lewis One, designed at NASA Ames
Research Center in the early 1990s. These systems are intended to
provide permanent homes for communities of thousands of people. The
Kalpana One structure is a cylinder with a radius of 250m and a
length of 325m. The population target is 3,000 residents.

The Kalpana One design is named after NASA astronaut Kalpana
Chawla. Born in India, she was one of the seven crew members
killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. The name "Kalpana-1"
was first coined by an entry to the NASA Ames Student Space
Settlement Design Contest in 2005 by a team from New Delhi,
India.

Click on the images below for larger versions. All of
these art works are copyright by Bryan Versteeg/spacehabs.com and are used
with permission. Links to additional art works and videos of
Kalpana One are below.

Exterior view.

Closer view of exterior.

Cutaway view of interior.

Interior view from near the hub of the settlement.

This and the following two images show successively closer
interior views.

Automated robotic farming.

Additional images and video of Kalpana One by Bryan Versteeg can
be found at spacehabs.com.